This construction cake was made for my four year old sons birthday and technically our theme was “dirt” since he’s all boy! You will need a 12″ two layer, 8″ one layer and a 6″ two layer cake. Also you will need cake circles and dowel rods for stacking. I used chocolate sprinkles and Heath … Read more
I made this Toolbox Birthday Cake for my husband’s 50th birthday. He has a vast collection on tools, so I had to sneek into his workshop to check out his tools. Most of the tools were made from a candy mold, such as the hammer, pliers, wrench chisle and saw, but the electrical pliers and … Read more
For my son’s 2nd birthday, we decided to make a big yellow Tonka Truck Cake, as it was his current favourite toy. The sponge is a white choc mud cake, baked in a variety of tins to get the right types of shapes. We then iced in butter cream, and used a variety of available … Read more
Our 3yr old is obsessed with construction trucks, so I made him this Homemade Dump Truck Cake and then cut out dumptrucks from construction paper and attached them to sidewalk chalk buckets – added the bottom 1/3 of a paper lunchbag to the top of it and made them into goodie bags/buckets filled with treats. … Read more
The bottom portion of the Dump Truck Cake is 4 13×9” sheet cakes, layered with cookies and cream filling and topped with chocolate icing and Oreo and chocolate chip cookie crumbs. Orange cones are made from fondant and were allowed to dry. The dump truck is made of pound cake baked in two standard bread … Read more
This is one of those cake ideas that was inspired by a one year olds fascination with dump trucks. His Mom brought me the truck to copy and wanted to serve FIFTY people with the cake. It ended up being the same size as the original – as in the picture above! Materials: One each … Read more
My son really loves Felipe on Handy Manny so I decided to give it a try. Since there aren’t any molds for this, I made a 13×9 cake and cut out a rounded rectangle for the top and a narrower rectangle for the bottom of the screwdriver. I just used gel and liquid food coloring … Read more